Senior Manager of Business Operations, Ford Energy

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

In this position, the Senior Manager, Business Operations, Ford Energy will serve as a people leader and the primary connective force driving Ford Energy's stand-up as an independent business unit. Reporting to the Director, Business Operations, Ford Energy, this person will lead and develop a team of business operations professionals while personally owning the alignment between Business Integration and Systems Integration workstreams — ensuring business process design, operational structure, and technology implementation move forward as one coordinated effort. This role carries direct accountability for execution outcomes across the business, not just process design: setting team priorities, removing roadblocks, holding workstreams accountable to milestones, and representing Business Operations in senior cross-functional forums. This is a foundational leadership role with significant opportunity to grow in scope and influence as Ford Energy scales.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in business operations, business process improvement, program/project management, management consulting, or a similar role, including experience leading or managing people.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing business processes across multiple functions, with accountability for execution and outcomes.
• Experience working with corporate functions such as finance, HR, legal, IT, or supply chain.
• Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop a team.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to connect, align, and influence diverse teams and senior leaders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
• High ownership mindset with strong follow-through and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, priorities, and direct reports simultaneously.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting new business stand-ups, carve-outs, spin-offs, or joint ventures.
• Experience partnering with systems integration or IT teams on ERP or other core system implementations.
• Management consulting background with a focus on process design or operating model development.
• MBA or other advanced degree.
• Lean/Six Sigma or process excellence certification.
• Experience in a large, complex corporate or manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a team of business operations professionals; set clear priorities, provide coaching and performance feedback, and create a high-accountability team culture.
• Act as the connective tissue between Business Integration and Systems Integration teams, ensuring business process design directly informs system requirements and system implementation supports business readiness — resolving misalignment before it becomes risk.
• Drive execution of business process design, implementation, and governance workstreams end to end, holding cross-functional teams and own team accountable for milestones, dependencies, and decisions.
• Partner with stakeholders across finance, HR, legal, supply chain, IT, and other functions to map current-state processes and design and implement the future-state, end-to-end business processes Ford Energy needs to operate as a standalone business.
• Define and stand up the operational structures, decision rights, and governance forums needed for Ford Energy to run independently.
• Own coordination of integration points between Ford Energy and Ford's broader corporate functions, ensuring new processes align with policy, controls, and reporting needs.
• Lead the rollout of new processes, including documentation, stakeholder communication, training, and readiness activities.
• Own tracking of stand-up workstreams, risks, issues, and decisions; deliver clear, concise, and influential updates to senior leadership.
• Build and leverage strong relationships across a broad set of business partners and senior stakeholders to keep work moving, resolve roadblocks quickly, and drive decisions in ambiguous or contested situations.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager